Anchorage Digital Launches Agentic Banking With Google Cloud to Power AI Finance

Highlights:

• Anchorage Digital launched Agentic Banking to give AI agents regulated access to financial systems.
• Google Cloud will support the platform with Gemini AI models and secure key management.
• The platform helps institutions add crypto trading, staking, stablecoins, and wallet services faster.

Anchorage Digital, the company behind America’s first federally chartered crypto bank, launched Agentic Banking on Tuesday, which enables AI agents to perform financial tasks safely and in compliance with regulatory requirements. The company also expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to support the new platform.

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What Agentic Banking Does

Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to writing text or answering questions. Today, AI systems can also support business tasks, manage payments, and handle company funds with less human input. However, these AI agents still need a safe and regulated way to access real money. This is where Agentic Banking comes in.

The platform works as a regulated layer between AI agents and financial systems. It helps companies control how AI agents use money. It also checks agent identities through “Know Your Agent” standards. 

In addition, the platform applies real-time compliance checks before any transaction is completed. Payments can move through stablecoins, traditional fiat payment systems, or tokenized credentials. This gives institutions more flexibility while keeping strong control over financial activity.

Nathan McCauley, Co-Founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, said:

“We’re entering a world where agents don’t just inform decisions, they make them, and act on them. But for that to work in the real economy, agents need more than intelligence, they need regulated access to capital. Agentic Banking is the bridge between those two worlds: a system that brings trust, governance, and real financial rails to autonomous systems.”

Google Cloud Supports the Technology Behind the Platform

Google Cloud will support the platform with its AI and security infrastructure. Anchorage Digital said Google’s Gemini models can help AI agents reason through complex financial decisions. Google Cloud will also provide Multi-Party Computation key management.

Multi-Party Computation is a security method that helps protect digital asset keys by dividing key control across different locations. This reduces the risk of keeping sensitive crypto keys in one place. Anchorage Digital will connect this technology with its regulated digital asset infrastructure.

Together, the companies are building a cloud-native system for institutions that want to offer digital asset services without creating everything from scratch. The platform can support wallets, transaction controls, trading, staking, and operational workflows in one setup.

Anchorage Digital said the platform supports stablecoins and major digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Financial institutions can plug these services into their existing products and offer them to end users across multiple blockchain networks.

Institutions Get Easier Access to Digital Asset Services

Banks, asset managers, and fintech companies are facing growing demand for digital asset products. Many firms want to offer crypto services, but building secure and compliant infrastructure can be difficult. Agentic Banking and the Google Cloud partnership aim to make that process easier.

Rich Widmann, Head of Strategy for Web3 at Google Cloud, said global financial institutions need secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure as they adopt digital assets. He said the partnership combines Anchorage Digital’s regulated capabilities with Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support the next stage of institutional adoption.

Anchorage Digital also brings strong regulatory experience to the project. The company is home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., which it describes as the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States. It also operates through Anchorage Digital Singapore, licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and Anchorage Digital NY, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS).

On Tuesday, Anchorage Digital also announced plans to launch “Cashless” stablecoin reserves on Solana. The company said this model is designed for institutional stablecoin issuers that manage reserves at scale.

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